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Vowel harmony

Index of SIL publications on Vowel harmony listed by country.

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General works

• PEARCE, Mary, author. 2008. "Vowel harmony domains and vowel undershoot."  

Works specific to particular countries

Africa

Cameroon

• SCRUGGS, Terri R., author. 1980. Vowel harmony in Yamba.

Chad

• PEARCE, Mary, author. 2003. Vowel harmony in Kera (Chadic).  

Côte d’Ivoire

• DAWSON, Keith, author. 1975. "L’accord vocalique en tépo."

Democratic Republic of the Congo

• KOEHLER, Loren Scott, author. 1995. An underspecification approach to Budu vowel harmony.
• KUTSCH LOJENGA, Constance, author. 1992. "Vowel harmony in Alur: On the crossroads of two systems."
• LEITCH, Myles, author. 1996. Vowel harmonies of the Congo Basin: An Optimality Theory analysis of variation in the Bantu zone C.
• MORGAN, David, author. 1991. Vowel harmony, syllable structure and the causative extension in a Bantu language - Lobala: a government phonology account.
• WILLIAMS, Angela, author. 2009. "An optimality theory analysis of vowel harmony in Ndruna."  
• WIT, Gerrit de, author. 2010. Lika phonologie.  

Ghana

• CAHILL, Michael, author. 1996. ATR harmony in Kɔnni.
• CAHILL, Michael, author. 1999. "Vowel harmony in Kɔnni."
• SNIDER, Keith L., author. 1984. "Vowel harmony and the consonant | in Chumburung."
• SNIDER, Keith L., author. 1989. "Vowel coalescence in Chumburung: An autosegmental analysis."

Kenya

• LARSEN, Iver A., author. 1984. "Vowel harmony in Koony."

Nigeria

• CASALI, Roderic F., author. 2003. "An introduction to ATR vowel harmony in African languages."
• SAVAGE, T. Dale, author. 1987. "Some abstract features of Kwa vowel harmony: An autosegmental approach to Engenni, Igbo, Akan, and Yoruba."

Senegal

• UNSETH, Carla, author. 2009. "Vowel harmony in Wolof."  

Sudan

• HALL, Beatrice L.; YOKWE, Eluzai M., authors. 1981. "Bari vowel harmony: The evolution of a cross-height vowel harmony system."
• SCHRÖDER, Helga; SCHRÖDER, Martin, authors. 1987. "Vowel harmony in Toposa."
• STIRTZ, Timothy M., author. 2009. "[ATR] vowel harmony in Gaahmg."

Togo

• ANDERSON, Coleen G., author. 1999. "ATR vowel harmony in Akposso."

Americas

Mexico

• SPOTTS, Hazel, author. 1953. "Vowel harmony and consonant sequences in Mazahua (Otomi)."

Venezuela

• BAKSHI, Indira; PAYNE, Doris L., authors. 1998. "Vowel harmony and transitive verb clauses in Panare: where are the consonant-initial roots?."

Asia

Indonesia

• QUICK, Philip A., author. 2000. "A non-linear analysis of vowel harmony and vowel harmony blocking in Pendau."

Malaysia

• KROEGER, Paul R., author. 1992. "Vowel harmony systems in three Sabahan languages."
• ROBINSON, Laura C., author. 2006. "Vowel harmony in Borneo?: an examination of vowel changes in Tindal Dusun."  

Philippines

• HARRISON, K. David; MEROW, Katharine; SHOREY, Rachel, authors. 2006. "Sonority contour preferences in Philippine languages."  

Pacific

Papua New Guinea

• PENCE, Alan R., author. 1971. "Kunimaipa vowel harmony."